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Show HARM DONE BY BARK BEETLE Like Other Members of Their Family Trey Alwayt Attack Weakened and Starved Treet. i In peach orchard from New York southward to Virginia and westward to Michigan the ach tree bark le-!le le-!le has glirii occasional trouble tlnce shout is;,u It a hard shelled In Sfct about ' Inch long, and when It emerges from the tree leaves tiny l.oius like small shot holes In the burk, hence It Is sometime called the shot hole borer The full grown beetles aptiear In early spring, burrow through the bark to the sapwood. and lay their eggs The larvae toon hatch snd make little burrows of their owns In various directions In ubout one month they emerge and tturt a 1 second brood The numerous burrow .eventually girdle and kill the tree I.Ike other member of their family, they rarely attack healthy trees, but 'promptly ret ognl.e weakened and starved trc-s, which soon show the gummy exudation at point of at j tack This peculiarity suggests that j orchard tr-es should be kept In the best possible vigor, and all that show i serious Infestation should be prompt-j prompt-j ly cut out and burned at once, so aa to destroy all the Insects tinder the I bark iMluy f sure to Increase the ! risk to other tree from Increased f a X ! O Peach Trtf Bark Beetle. numbers of Insect If only alight In-festatlone In-festatlone are noticed all tree should be closely exat.'.lned to determine the original source of weakness, and ahould be stimulated with application of .fertilizer, and the trunk kept covered cov-ered with whitewash to which pari j green has been added. Strong whale i oil soapsuds with a little crude car-1 car-1 bollc acid also aid the effei tlvenes ' of whitewash. I A recent bulletin by II. F. Wilson j of the I" nlted States department of , ' agriculture recommend severely trimming trim-ming back trees that are seriously Injured and the application of farm-; farm-; yard manure and commercial fertl-I fertl-I llzer prior to the applhatiou of a ) thick coat of whitewash to the trunks , i and limbs three- times a year; first. In the last week of March; second, j during the second week In July; and third, about October 1. For apparently apparent-ly healthy but slightly attacked tnes, 1 Mr. Wilson recommend the white- washing and the removal of all dead I limb and tree, not only In the or'-chard, or'-chard, but In the neighborhood, so a i to destroy the breeding places. |